Deep Industry and Market Knowledge Combined with Significant Experience Structuring Texas Real Estate Joint Ventures & Partnerships

Shams Merchant advises industry-leading players in their real estate joint ventures and partnerships nationwide and across Texas. These clients choose him to represent them on high-stakes joint ventures and partnership formations because of his market insight, attention to detail, and cost-effective fee arrangements. Shams’ real estate joint ventures and partnerships practice encompasses the full spectrum of commercial real estate law and includes the following areas:

  • Simple two-party joint ventures, such as money partner/operating partner matters
  • Programmatic arrangements
  • Complex platforms
  • Recapitalizations
  • Restructurings
  • So-called “secondaries” transactions – both simple and “structured”
  • GP Capital/Sponsor Capital Funds
  • Debt-to-equity swaps
  • Corporate real estate transactions
  • Non-traded-REIT transactions
  • Public markets REIT transactions
  • Fund formation and compliance
  • Syndications

Shams represents the leading Texas real estate private equity firms and deal sponsors in the negotiation and structuring of Texas joint-venture agreements on a flat-fee basis, which is more cost-effective than on an hourly rate typically used by most attorneys.

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